List of popes

Quality:

List of popes - list of the heads of the Catholic Church. Article “List of popes” in Simple English Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 14 sections.

This article has the best quality in Kazakh Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 674^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2194^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1389^th most popular in all topics.

The 994^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 717^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 5282^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1079^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 444^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “List of popes” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5282^nd place) and written by 90 authors in all languages (444^th place).

Since the creation of article “List of popes”, its content was written by 55 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2194^th place) and edited by 6378 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (994^th place).

The article is cited 18802 times in Simple English Wikipedia (14^th place) and cited 45476 times in all languages (3514^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #61 in May 2025
• Global: #4 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11 in May 2025
• Global: #4 in April 2025

There are 47 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Kazakh (kk) Рим папаларының тізімі		96.129
2	Danish (da) Paverækken		95.4675
3	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách giáo hoàng		88.5982
4	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		88
5	Indonesian (id) Daftar Paus Gereja Katolik		87.8304
6	Belarusian (be) Спіс Папаў Рымскіх і антыпапаў		87.2
7	Armenian (hy) Հռոմի պապերի ու հակապապերի ցանկ		85.9259
8	Catalan (ca) Llista de papes de Roma		82.6192
9	Romanian (ro) Lista papilor		77.4868
10	English (en) List of popes		76.9751

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of popes		25 492 774
2	German (de) Liste der Päpste		9 097 109
3	French (fr) Liste des papes		7 940 989
4	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		7 539 204
5	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		6 224 528
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		4 732 285
7	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		3 459 078
8	Japanese (ja) ローマ教皇の一覧		2 259 384
9	Dutch (nl) Lijst van pausen		2 104 024
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över påvar		933 244

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of popes		148 896
2	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		42 511
3	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		41 981
4	German (de) Liste der Päpste		38 239
5	French (fr) Liste des papes		32 871
6	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		29 251
7	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		19 296
8	Japanese (ja) ローマ教皇の一覧		14 362
9	Dutch (nl) Lijst van pausen		7 740
10	Chinese (zh) 教宗列表		6 853

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of popes		1 356
2	German (de) Liste der Päpste		633
3	French (fr) Liste des papes		558
4	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		497
5	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		365
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		247
7	Dutch (nl) Lijst van pausen		225
8	Russian (ru) Список римских пап и антипап		195
9	Hebrew (he) רשימת האפיפיורים		163
10	Hungarian (hu) Római pápák listája		147

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Lista dei papi		20
2	English (en) List of popes		13
3	French (fr) Liste des papes		5
4	Polish (pl) Poczet papieży		5
5	Portuguese (pt) Lista de papas		5
6	Slovak (sk) Zoznam pápežov		4
7	Slovenian (sl) Seznam papežev		4
8	German (de) Liste der Päpste		3
9	Romanian (ro) Lista papilor		3
10	Swedish (sv) Lista över påvar		3

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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